The Green Party’s conference this week will look ahead to the coming general election, when the Greens are confident of a parliamentary breakthrough.
The Greens are taking their conference to Brighton & Hove to underline the strength of party leader Caroline Lucas MEP’s bid to win a seat in that city. In Brighton and Hove:
The Greens [...]
The Green Party today called for the government to drop plans that attack internet users in the name of supporting the creative industries.
Under plans announced midway through the Digital Britain consultation, if your internet connection has been used to repeatedly download illegal content, you will be cut off.
Caroline Lucas, Green Party Leader, said: “Mandelson might [...]
Responding to today’s government announcement of a “low carbon plan,” Caroline Lucas MEP said:
“There is nothing really new here. The targets still lag behind the science. There’s still the same old preference for nuclear, which isn’t green and won’t deliver the short-term CO2 reductions we urgently need.
“The same 400,000 green jobs by 2015 were announced [...]
A new report from the Green Party makes a powerful case that nuclear power has no rationale in terms of either economics or helping the fight against dangerous climate change.
Green Party’s spokesperson on trade and industry, Darren Johnson AM argues the following:
Nuclear power provides less than 4% of UK energy [...]
Today the Green Party launches its European election manifesto titled: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
The manifesto promises to rapidly create a million jobs through a Green New Deal. It stresses the need to make Britain’s economy work differently in order to protect and improve public services, to create a fairer society and to tackle the climate [...]
Ahead of its manifesto launch later this week, the Green Party today revealed one of its key policies – a Green recovery package that would create a million jobs.
“Put the economy on a war footing NOW”
To deliver these jobs urgently (2), the UK economy must be put on something like a war footing, [...]